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Knocked out Mk VI Tiger tank at Belpasso, Sicily, 1943. A German Tiger tank in Sicily, 1943. German troops of the Hermann Göring Division. Sicily 1943. Although Allied planners opted to concentrate their ground forces in the anticipation of tough Axis resistance, the actual combat capability of Axis troops deployed in Sicily was questionable. Axis forces consisted of between 200,000…

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